Male chick dispatch

[delilah]

Daughter just back from Uni, says the vegan mentality is very active, characterized by social media videos on the horrors of livestock farming. Evidently there is a video that shows fully conscious male chicks being dropped into a blender, please tell me we don't do that ?

 

[roscoe erf]

we dont do that

 

[Terryyen]

male chicks are normally gassed in bags and then sold for food to birds of prey. I brought many van loads from Somerset for boss who had many birds of prey and he also sold a load

 

[delilah]

we dont do that

Foreign film then ? would they do it abroad ? Propaganda mock up ?

 

[R J]

Foreign film then ? would they do it abroad ? Propaganda mock up ?

Trouble is with the vegan activists is that they will mock up / stage things for the camera (basically full on lie) to try to change peoples opinion !
Its definitely not carried out in this country

 

[Netherfield]

Was Carbon Dioxide gas the major chicken suppliers used.

 

[delilah]

This is what they are watching. If it conclusively doesn't happen in the UK then good, but you can see how it would put someone off eggs, UK produced or otherwise.

 

[Bongodog]

If you look at it on Youtube it clearly says its in Australia

 

[Muddyroads]

Nicely sums up the whole problem here @delilah
Your daughter and her mates should be the ones asking if it’s true. Why do youngsters not fact check anything these days?
Do uni’s not train students to question what they see and hear?

 

[Av Gorritt]

I remember a story of a forensic research lecturer , having given his students the word to never take anything at face value . He then went on to demonstrate urine sample analysis , saying that a very important part of analysis was to taste it first ! going on to dip his finger into the sample and taste it , and then inviting his students to do the same . After a great deal of retching , one student came forward to do it , dipping his finger into the urine . He was just about to suck his finger when the lecturer stopped him . Didn't you notice that I used a different finger to taste , rather than the one I dipped in ? As I said NEVER take anything at face value . Lesson learnt.

 

[bitwrx]

Jesus. That's pretty brutal. The people who invented that machine must've taken a very dispassionate view on how to dispatch male chicks.

Don't think I'd want to be involved with a company that used that machine.

ETA: if it's a fake, it's a good one. Fakery relies on the thing being faked seeming plausible in the first place. Is it sad that I think that machine is plausibly real?

 

[corkman2013]

It's not fake.

 

[delilah]

Your daughter and her mates should be the ones asking if it’s true

tbf she is, she as asking me lol. I have asked her to tell them that it doesn't happen in the UK, but you can see how videos like that will have an impact anyway.
Anyone who thinks the threat to the livestock industry is a bit of a fad among the chattering classes, should spend some time talking to normal youngsters. We aren't doing, remotely, enough to promote the environmental and moral case for livestock production.

 

[Grassman]

That is appalling but I guess it is as humane as any other way. They dont get any prior knowledge of death and its certainly quick.
I really don't like some aspects of modern factory farming!

 

[Netherfield]

Until someone can sex the egg before it goes into the incubator it'll carry on as well.

Of course it's been brought on by breeding egg layers to not put on meat, and breeding broilers to put meat on too quickly.

 

[Jim31]

On my broiler farm and most of the uk market, we are as-hatched. But when we did sexed we had cock at one end and hen the other end and when we thinned the hens go first then the cocks had the whole shed,

dispatching a chick is pointless, because it’s cost money to buy a fertile egg in and cost money to set and hatch them, and labour

 

[Netherfield]

On my broiler farm and most of the uk market, we are as-hatched. But when we did sexed we had cock at one end and hen the other end and when we thinned the hens go first then the cocks had the whole shed,

dispatching a chick is pointless, because it’s cost money to buy a fertile egg in and cost money to set and hatch them, and labour

As I said above, the males from laying birds are useless no market for them

 

[Ukjay]

Maceration of male chicks

www.rspcaassured.org.uk

Chicks (less than 72 hours old) and embryonated eggs

www.hsa.org.uk

https://www.hsa.org.uk/downloads/technical-notes/TN9-mechanical-destruction.pdf

 

[traadilooar]

What exactly is the students problem with it?
Is it that chicks are fluffy and cute?
What about the loss of life when vegetable ground is rotavated and destoned etc or do bugs and small organisms not matter?
Pest control in cereal and veg crops hills thousands of creatures, do there lives not matter?

I’m afraid food production is a nasty business.

 

[Muddyroads]

Bugs Lives Matter!